Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy has been in dispute with the Bureau of Land Management over grazing fees on federal lands. Because Bundy hasn't paid the fees for 20 years, federal authorities began to round up his cattle earlier this month.

Over the weekend, Bundy gathered more than 1,000 people, some of them armed, to protest the BLM. Federal authorities backed off, and Bundy then declared victory over the government.

The conservative media has been hyping the standoff. Alex Jones' website InfoWars called the "surrender" by the federal government "historic." And Breitbart News called the showdown, "THE SAGA OF BUNDY RANCH -- FEDERAL POWER, RULE OF LAW AND AVERTING POTENTIAL BLOODSHED."

A writer for National Review compared Cliven Bundy to Mahatma Gandhi. And former sheriff Richard Mack likened Bundy's militia to Rosa Parks and the federal authorities to Nazi soldiers.